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The versatile and nutritious potato; the potato's mysterious origins in South America's Andes; potato knishes in New York City; farming exotic potatoes in Maine; large-scale potato production in Iowa and Pennsylvania.

How wheat feeds the world; wheat becomes everything from bread to beer; a custom harvester follows ripening wheat fields from Texas to North Dakota; exporting wheat; grinding grain into flour; Widmer Brothers Brewery; Wheatware.

Corn is the largest agricultural crop in the world, and it is used in more than 3,000 diverse items, ranging from food to the plastic wrap for packaging it.

Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins; explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.

Coffee traces origins from Ethiopia over 1,000 years ago to today's Starbucks explosion; American giants Hills Brothers, Maxwell House, and Folgers process billions of beans while coffeehouses historically brewed political and artistic progress.

The sugar industry developed through Caribbean slavery and British control desires; sugar played critical roles in American independence while modern Hawaiian plantations process cane stalks into raw sugar, corn syrup, and various sweetener forms.

Breakfast technology slices, squeezes, sorts, and cooks to keep orange juice fresh and cereals flaked; explore USS Stennis meal preparation for sailors, Tyson bacon processing, Sunkist orange squeezing, and McDonald's McGriddle pancake production.

Each year in the U.S., 280 million hens lay 80 billion eggs, one of the world's most affordable sources of protein; charting an egg's journey from the henhouse to the breakfast table; how powdered eggs are manufactured.

The versatile and nutritious potato; the potato's mysterious origins in South America's Andes; potato knishes in New York City; farming exotic potatoes in Maine; large-scale potato production in Iowa and Pennsylvania.

How wheat feeds the world; wheat becomes everything from bread to beer; a custom harvester follows ripening wheat fields from Texas to North Dakota; exporting wheat; grinding grain into flour; Widmer Brothers Brewery; Wheatware.

Corn is the largest agricultural crop in the world, and it is used in more than 3,000 diverse items, ranging from food to the plastic wrap for packaging it.

Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins; explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.

Coffee traces origins from Ethiopia over 1,000 years ago to today's Starbucks explosion; American giants Hills Brothers, Maxwell House, and Folgers process billions of beans while coffeehouses historically brewed political and artistic progress.

The sugar industry developed through Caribbean slavery and British control desires; sugar played critical roles in American independence while modern Hawaiian plantations process cane stalks into raw sugar, corn syrup, and various sweetener forms.

Scientists and military specialists theorize ways that the planet might be vulnerable to a potential alien invasion and if the human race has the necessary means to fight back.

Ancient monuments point toward stars in the sky; ancient texts contain references to flying objects.

After years of silence and secrecy, the U.S. government reveals possible evidence of extraterrestrial life, with analysis from scientific and military experts.

The theory that alien technology helped ancient humans build megalithic stone structures.

Structures and artifacts throughout the world point to advanced technology in the distant past; exploring the possibility that alien technology may have helped ancient humans.

Ancient people described monsters and visitors from the sky; these beings might be aliens, or the product of alien experimentation on humans.

Authors, astronomers and theoretical physicists examine the different technologies that would be required to bridge the stars.

Scientists and military specialists theorize ways that the planet might be vulnerable to a potential alien invasion and if the human race has the necessary means to fight back.

Ancient monuments point toward stars in the sky; ancient texts contain references to flying objects.

After years of silence and secrecy, the U.S. government reveals possible evidence of extraterrestrial life, with analysis from scientific and military experts.

The theory that alien technology helped ancient humans build megalithic stone structures.

Structures and artifacts throughout the world point to advanced technology in the distant past; exploring the possibility that alien technology may have helped ancient humans.

Ancient people described monsters and visitors from the sky; these beings might be aliens, or the product of alien experimentation on humans.

Authors, astronomers and theoretical physicists examine the different technologies that would be required to bridge the stars.

Scientists and military specialists theorize ways that the planet might be vulnerable to a potential alien invasion and if the human race has the necessary means to fight back.